Greek government brings forward key presidential vote to this month
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s government on Monday brought forward a crucial presidential vote by two months, in a surprise move after securing a two-month extension of its bailout program.
EU, Turkey need greater alignment to face Islamic State: Mogherini
ANKARA (Reuters) – The European Union and Turkey have drifted apart on foreign policy and need greater “alignment” to tackle threats including Islamic State, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Monday.
Libya peace talks may be doomed by meddling powers: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has little faith in U.N.-backed peace talks in Libya because Middle Eastern countries are defying requests to end their war by proxy in the oil-rich North African nation, senior U.S. officials said.
Guantanamo ex-inmates are ‘free men’ in Uruguay: defense minister
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Uruguay will treat the six detainees it has taken in from the U.S. camp holding suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay as “totally free men” who do not represent any security threat, the country’s defense minister told Reuters on…
‘Day of Silence’ aims to rebuild Ukraine truce but talks in doubt
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine plans a “Day of Silence” on Tuesday to try to rebuild a ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists that has all but disintegrated, but accompanying peace talks — the first in three months — look likely to be delayed.
Yemen al Qaeda leader criticizes IS beheadings as un-Islamic
SANAA (Reuters) – A senior leader of al Qaeda in Yemen has criticized beheadings by Islamic State (IS) fighters as un-Islamic, and said his own group had banned such acts.
Philippine capital braces for storm, as Hagupit leaves 27 dead
DOLORES, Philippines (Reuters) – Typhoon Hagupit weakened to a tropical storm as it churned close to the Philippine capital on Monday, after killing 27 people on the eastern island of Samar island where it flattened homes, toppled trees and cut power a…
Brazil’s Rousseff resists pressure to prosecute dictatorship crimes
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – As a young Marxist in the early 1970s, Dilma Rousseff was jailed, hung upside down and tortured with electric shocks to her feet, head and breasts by Brazil’s military dictatorship.
Policeman killed in ‘terrorist’ attack in Bahrain – interior ministry
MANAMA (Reuters) – A policeman was killed in a “terrorist” incident while on duty southwest of Bahrain’s capital Manama on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
U.S. sanctions aimed at changing power, Russian envoy says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A senior Russian diplomat accused the United States on Monday of trying to bring down President Vladimir Putin with the sanctions it has imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine.
